Astorag: Sunset

DETAILS :

• Publisher: SAHITYA AKADEMI
  
• Author: Homen Borgohan
  
• Language: English
  
• Pages: 121
  
• Cover: Hardcover
  
• Weight 280 gm
  
• Edition: 2010
  
• ISBN: 9788172019471

ABOUT THE BOOK

Astorag (Sunset) was first published in Assamese in 1986. It has already been translated into Hindi and published by Bharatiya Jnanpith in 1991. Astorag is about the problems the old face in a society in translation from a traditional to a modern way of living. Embedded in the centre of Astorag is a drama of guilt and expiation, a drama that admits the emotive-evocative, but with an overtopping of the clinical-diagnostic on the emotive; and this gives the novel a tone and temper unlikely, at first encounter, to be agreeable to conventional expectations. Astorag is a pioneering work of its kind in Assamese because of the genuine attempt to blend the strain of creative-exploratory to that of the clinical-diagnostic. The novel reminds us of the great literatures of the world on the theme of ageing. It reminds us also of the unforgettable lines of T.S. Eliot from the The Waste Land:

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Home Borgobain (b. 1931), novelist critic and poet is a well known name in Assamese literature. In 1967, he resigned from the Assam Civil Service to devote himself wholeheartedly to literature. His first novel Subala was published in 1963. Since then he has written eleven novels. His magnum opus is Pita Putra (Father and Son) which is a long novel. His novels taken together, reveal a wide range, inclusive of the rural and wide range, inclusive of the rural and the urban, the social and the political, psycho-analytical and the critical-intellectual. Homen Borgohain’s interesting poems are of the period 1950-60. He has edited several collections of Assamese poetry of different periods and of different types. He has also edited a collection of Assamese prose and is currently editor of Asom Bani.

Ashok Bhagawati (b.1946) is a Reader in English and the author of Politics and the novel, a critical study of the social, political and moral ideas of Joseph Conrad. He writes in both English and Assamese and has published a novel and a short biography of Mother Teresa in Assamese. For the last two decades he has also been writing in Assamese periodicals on literary topics apart from doing translations.